The dry skin brushing (garshana) increases circulation, alkalizes the blood, helps create negative ions, and cleans the skin so herbal oil can penetrate more deeply.  Warm, herbal-oil massage (abhyanga) nourishes the skin, aids in removing impurities, stimulates both arterial and lymphatic circulation, and calms the central nervous system, promoting a blissful sensation.  Garshana enhances the potential for nutrients to reach starved cells and also eliminates stagnant waste.  Best when followed by the abhyanga massage.

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During the 30-45 minute treatment, you will relax with your feet soaking in a warm tub of water that has a small amount of salt added to aid the conductivity of the water. When the system is switched on, the array immersed in the water creates a series of positive and negative ions (electrons), which the body absorbs through the pores in your feet. The water will start to change color as millions of ions enter your body and being to neutralize tissue acid wastes. These negative and positive ions attract toxins and are released from the body via osmosis, cleansing the body of many heavy metals and other toxins that have built up. After the foot bath, the practitioner will clean your feet, apply a relaxing foot cream, and provide a short foot massage to ensure you leave feeling completely relaxed!

The benefits of the Aqua Detox™ system are:

• Better circulation
• Increased energy levels
• More vitality
• Increased organ levels
• Better nutrient absorption
• Greater sense of well being

Contraindications:

• Pregnancy
• Electric implants (cardiac pacemakers)
• Epileptic and Psychotic episodes
• Organ transplants

For a list of frequently asked questions, please go to: http://www.aquadetoxusa.com/FAQs.html

Articles about Aqua Detox™:

1. http://www.aquadetoxusa.com/media/CAM_Article_Aqua_Detox_USA.pdf

This article describes a study conducted by an independent researcher, Dr Sanjay Chaudhuri, MB,BS, BSc, who employed a range of scientific equipment to assess the efficacy of the Aqua Detox medical unit. The study demonstrated that the device has a scientifically measurable and reproducible effect across the test group, in contrast to the control subjects, who did not noticeably alter from baseline readings. A single treatment with the Aqua Detox affects the electronic functions of the body through a reservoir of alkaline electron rich water, giving it adaptation energy in a way that allows the body to detoxify, and adds additional resources to the “body electric” which then enhances the body’s innate ability to detoxify and rebalance itself.

1. http://www.aquadetoxusa.com/media/Copy_of_Medical_Research_Brochure.pdf

Other services offered in conjunction with Aqua Detox™ include:

Aqua Detox™ Foot Bath with Reiki

During the Aqua Detox™ Foot Bath treatment, you will receive Reiki energy while sitting comfortably in a chair while sipping hydrating and alkalining coconut water. This treatment will enhance relaxation and the release of toxins from your body. So relaxing! 60 minutes, $100.

Aqua Detox™ Foot Bath with Reflexology

After your Aqua Detox™ Foot Bath treatment, the practitioner will clean your feet, apply a relaxing foot cream, and massage your feet using reflexology and other foot massage techniques. Total bliss! 60 minutes, $100.

Please help us ring in a fantastic and eventful and exciting first year at 1212 New York Avenue by voting for us as best Med-Spa.

Two years ago I started complaining with my boyfriend about how I needed a bigger file cabinet. He suggested I expand my practice. Having only been two years in the current space where I rented one room from a naturopath, I balked and kept complaining about shoving files into a plastic cabinet that’s busting at the seams.

I thought he was nuts but it kept tugging at me.  I started looking at commercial leases with space for me and a small yoga studio. I was once again convinced that I might as well “go big or go home” and made the decision to open a full service clinic. That is when the tug exploded in my mind and dreams started becoming harsh reality. After a year of tediously writing business plans, researching, searching, getting let down, getting back up again, locking down a lease, enduring a painful build out, freak out about finances on a regular basis, pulling my hair out over building construction around us, and wrestling with uneven and extreme treatment room temperatures, I built the place I wanted.  And then it took on a life of it’s own.

This place, where my patients can be referred to someone who can further assist them along their healing path. It is a sanctuary where our patients can come in and feel safe and comfortable and know that they will be heard. It is a place where my practitioners can thrive and learn and change people’s lives while building their own, individual practice. I adore them and their talents and compassion and levity.

We are a clinic, but each of my precious practitioners maintain their own clinic schedules, invest in building and advertising their own unique business, and cultivate relationships with their clients however they wish.  It’s an incubator of health and talent and growth and education. We regularly trade services with each other so that we can know what would work best for our own clients, as well as to keep ourselves grounded and healthy!

So long story not so short, help us out with an ego boost as we head into a whirlwind of a next year, with big (BIG) plans up our sleeves and renewed motivation to make some serious (SERIOUS) changes in this city.

Be well.

Nicole Ingrid

Pekoe

Looking to boost your fall into transition efforts?  Reiki Energy work can be a great way to unblock stagnant energy and relax your heart.Thai Yoga Therapy can help you let go, as you relinquish yourself to your therapist as they assist your limp body in deep yogic stretches. 

Or, try one of our Ayurvedic treatments: Whitney uses warm oils to help improve circulation, remove toxins, and calm the immunity with an Abhyanga massage. Select an Udwartana herbalized treatment for weight reduction, helping reduce blood cholesterol, and refresh the skin, or a brushing Garshana to improve arterial circulation, alkalize the blood, and stimulate lymphatic circulation.  Or pass out in blissful dream land with a Shirodhara… a warm oil stream over the  Third Eye. Need I say more?

Want to get even more in the atmosphere?  Try a Transformational Coaching session with John, who will take you away through guided meditation and visualization, and open you up to your full potential in HAPPINESS.  John does some powerful, deep work here.  Not to be taken lightly if you’re not ready to peel back some layers.

With that being said, take advantage of our some of our upcoming classes and workshops!

• Space is limited, and filling fast for the 14-day Fall Detox starting September 17^th
• And back by popular demand, Group Rohun, October 13^th
• Yoga Classes!!  Megan is BACK, and speaking of:  Yoga for a Healthy Back, as well a lunchtime gentle yoga class will resume Wednesdays
• Dahlia is bringing back her fantastic and feminine Sunday class
• Don’t forget to STOP AND BREATHE, sit with us during Tuesday evening meditation, or express lunchtime meditation on Thursdays.

Please register online for classes, workshops, and services so we know to expect you!  If you’re expected after hours (6pm) or on weekends, please refer to the confirmation email on directions on how to access the space. You may have to show your ID and/or sign in even if your appointment is during business hours, so please be patient.

Also, please like us on Facebook for updates, health tips, and other nifty tidbits. As you may have noticed there’s a lot going on lately, and we would like to keep you in the loop!

Be Well

Nicole

Functional medicine focuses on primary prevention by identifying the underlying causes, instead of symptoms, of chronic illness. Evaluating organ and systems functions rather than looking for a specific disease is a basic principle of functional medicine. Functional medicine lab tests may examine blood, hair, stool, urine, or saliva to evaluate nutritional status, digestive function, allergies, detoxification ability and more. The results of these various tests can assist the health care practitioner in tailoring nutritional therapies, detoxification programs, and other lifestyle changes for the prevention, mitigation, and treatment of complex chronic disease.

All Test Kit samples are collected off-site (most are home kits but some require a blood draw) and sent directly to CLIA certified lab testing facilities.

As of March 21, 2012, Pekoe Acupuncture and Wellness Center, PLLC is located at 1212 New York Ave NW, Suite #225.

Join us in our new space and enjoy a varity of other services along with acupuncture, including massage, meditation, nutritional counseling, yoga (private sessions, yoga therapeutics, and small classes), thai yoga therapy, transformational life coaching, and various workshops and community clinics to suit your requests and needs.

We’re terribly excited to be able to bring this to you, and hope that we can all reach new levels of health and happiness!

Statistics state that one in five couples over the age of 30 have difficulty conceiving after one year of trying. Many of these couples are turning to acupuncture and Oriental medicine for a safe, effective and natural solution to have a healthy baby.

Fertility treatments were first recorded by Zhang Zhong Jing, a famous physician from the Han Dynasty, in his discussion of diseases in women in the Jin Gui Yao Lue or Essentials of the Golden Cabinet.

According to the principles of Oriental medicine, a person’s health is determined by the quality of Qi, the vital life energy, and blood circulating through the body. When Qi and blood are circulating properly, the body is properly nourished and functioning optimally which, in turn, enhances fertility.

Researchers have confirmed the benefits of acupuncture and Oriental medicine for:

* regulating the menstrual cycle

* improving sperm count and motility

* reducing stress and anxiety associated with infertility

* normalizing hormone and endocrine systems

* improving blood flow in the uterus

* decreasing the chance of miscarriage

* increasing the chance of pregnancy for women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF)

Fertility treatment approaches can vary from person to person, but are usually scheduled for at least three consecutive cycles (twelve weeks). Treatments can include acupuncture, customized herbal therapy, stress reduction and dietary counseling.

If you or someone you know is experiencing difficulties with their reproductive health, please call to see how acupuncture and Oriental medicine can help.